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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!jdickson
- From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
- Subject: Re: AllocEntry
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.050044.22297@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- References: <BtLMLK.I35@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug26.163825.17699@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <34673@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 05:00:44 GMT
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- In article <34673@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
- >jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
- >> I was wondering how AllocEntry allocates memory. Are the MemList and
- >>the memory pointed to by the attached MemEntry structures allocated separately?
- >>Or is all the memory one big chunk?
- >
- > Whichever way AllocEntry does it, it may change tomorrow. Use the
- >defined interface, don't make assumptions.
-
- Well actually, my concern was fragmentation. I suspect AllocEntry is no dif-
- ferent than the Intuition function AllocateRemember. If that is indeed the
- case, then my next question was could I somehow wrap the MemList and the
- memory obtained in the same chunk. That's all.
-
- jeff
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